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Protesting lorry drivers paralyse customs clearance zone in Georgia

19 September 2018 by Shota Kincha

(RFE/RL)

Lorry drivers in Georgia have continued to protest a new ban on importing wheat, multi­grain, and corn overland after nego­ti­a­tions with the author­i­ties reached a deadlock on Wednesday. The drivers have been blocking the entrance to the Revenue Service’s customs clearance zone in Tbilisi since Monday and have vowed further action if an agreement is not reached. [Read more…]

Filed Under: News Stories Tagged With: georgia, human rights, labour, larsi, larsi checkpoint, lorry, lorry drivers, protest, tbilisi, wheat

A disappointing harvest in southern Georgia’s Akhalkalaki

4 September 2017 by Jnews

(Jnews)

As the harvest season comes to an end, farmers in Akhal­ka­la­ki are dis­sat­is­fied — they complain that frost followed by drought have led to dis­ap­point­ing yields. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Society Tagged With: agriculture, akhalkalaki, farm, farmers, georgia, harvest, samtskhe-javakheti, wheat

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Equal and more equal: Abkhazia’s passport policy

Equal and more equal: Abkhazia’s passport policy

Stella Adleyba

Ethnic Armenians, Russians, Georgians, and others fear the reason behind new cit­i­zen­ship reg­u­la­tions is to deprive them of Abkhazian passports.

Opinion | A narrow definition of safety harms workers in Georgia

Opinion | A narrow definition of safety harms workers in Georgia

Human Rights Watch

Georgia’s newly adopted law on labour safety is lacking statutes on workers’ rights due a narrow def­i­n­i­tion of safety.

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Voice from the Georgian–South Ossetian conflict | ‘I am not convinced, even now, that everything is over’

Voice from the Georgian–South Ossetian conflict | ‘I am not convinced, even now, that everything is over’

‘My Soviet childhood was very happy. I thought that my whole life would be like a fairy tale. But the fairy tale ended abruptly.’

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Interview | De Waal: ‘Is it time to come up with a bigger offer to Abkhazia?’

Interview | De Waal: ‘Is it time to come up with a bigger offer to Abkhazia?’

Thomas de Waal is a senior fellow at Carnegie Europe, a London-based think tank.

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